How to Use raw material in a Sentence

raw material

noun

• His experiences during the war were the raw material for the story.
• That's largely due to the high cost of the raw materials to make the battery.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2023
• The raw material, called hurd, is the inner, woody core of the hemp plant, chipped into small pieces.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
• The latter is a way for readers to connect with the raw materials that the essences come from.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
• The war in Ukraine has sparked fears of a fall in raw material exports from the region.
  — Anna Cooban and Inke Kappeler, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
• The name Matiere Premiere translates to ‘raw material,’ which is the uniting theme in the line.
  — Sable Yong, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2023
• The raw material changed and the winemakers had to adapt on how to handle that fruit and how to ferment it.
  — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• It is made from the same raw materials as tequila and mixed up in the same part of Mexico.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
• Those raw materials were the feedstock of tons of concrete, used to build roads.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2024
• The secret, though, was the raw material of sound, his tone, his way of finding a life-force in every note.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Nike and Adidas and the other sneaker makers, of course, provide the raw material that is at the heart of the business.
  — oregonlive, 4 June 2022
• That cuts down e-waste and potentially even the need to mine for as much raw material.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2023
• And that can result in a tonal jumble like Loot, which feels like a lot of great raw material in search of a series to make sense of it all(*).
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2022
• That said, of the top 10 exports, only one is truly a raw material: Oil.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• The brand’s website lists the exact percentages of raw materials used in each scent.
  — Jane Daly, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 July 2023
• Clay is the medium most often encountered in Leigh’s art, whether in glazed form or as the raw material for works then cast in bronze.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
• Before the war, roughly half its raw materials, like meat and chicken meal, came from abroad.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• Piantedosi cited the Golden Gloss raw material from Lyons as the root cause of the recall.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 6 Sep. 2022
• The shutdown may push up the cost of the raw material, which is a key component in electric car batteries.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
• Brown-Forman has raised prices across its suite of products as the cost of raw materials has jumped, and consumers may no longer be willing to pay.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2023
• Any slight burp in the path from raw material to the finished product in consumer’s hands causes a shortage.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
• Carrefour is putting stickers on products that have shrunk in size but cost more even though raw materials prices have eased.
  — Reuters, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• These large areas of space that are full of the raw materials needed to create stars–gas, dust, and energy.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
• This is the basic raw material of teen movies, but the twists and tweaks to which they’re subjected here reveal more contrivance than insight.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• On top of that, the Revive is crafted from a renewable raw material.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
• The raw material for the first such structure is already on the Moon: the surface layer of soil, or regolith (PDF) to geologists.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 29 Nov. 2022
• Tons of raw materials like glass, sand, rocks, and more arrived at Shepperton and crafted the moon’s surface.
  — Sezin Devi Koehler, EW.com, 25 May 2024
• Cells need not only energy but a source of raw materials to grow and divide.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• That decline may also be in part due to price hikes the company put in place to offset the rising costs of raw materials, such as cocoa and sugar.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 31 July 2024
• His rise has been as sharp as any politician to emerge since Barack Obama, and it has been similarly fuelled by a rare ability to convert the raw material of his life into a compelling social narrative.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024